@church, we’ll be featuring DocPop’s music in future episodes. @everyone else, don’t be such sourpusses! how can people be cranky and demeaning about yo yo videos, ffs? be nice, enjoy being alive, and if you don’t like it, move along to the next post.

Chill Box. We know the deal. I <3 Doc. I don’t know how many times I watched The Glass Lab Vol 4 (tinyurl.com/dlrodf). The guy invented Skin The Gerbil! I even own one of his denim wallets.

Doc’s a showman. Any yo-yoer with any PR chops at all knows that when you’re doing a demo for a bunch of regular people you’ve gotta keep it simple and flashy. If you bust out all your newest super technical string tricks you’ll just confuse everyone. He did well. I’m super geeked to see this on BB.

I was just spreading the love and info about new school yo-yoing in general, after Doc opened the door.

At this level, it’s like hearing an argument about who’s the best first chair violinist. I’m sure informed people can make rational arguments, but it’s so far out of my league that I’m in no position to judge.

Though, they don’t use wood ones as much as plastic because wood is more inconsistent in weight and density, is less durable and cant be manufactured to the same tolerances to accept the ball bearing axle that all modern yo-yos use. Most modern butterfly style yo-yos used by these type of players are made of precision machined and anodized aluminum, though many use molded plastic or machined delrin as well.

@Loraan, yeah, I know the video quality is poor. What we’re seeing here is the compressed flash video file that Ustream records, alas, not an original recording we edited. We’ve since figured out how to work around this, both with Ustream and with our production process when taping live-stream events for later reuse. Apologies for the poor quality!